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Aug 17 2021

Breaking the web forward

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"Easy is boring. That's why I love the web and browsers." - Remy Sharp

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Breaking the web forward
Safari is holding back the web. It is the new IE, after all. In contrast, Chrome is pushing the web forward so hard that it’s starting to break. Meanwhile web developers do nothing except moan and complain. The only thing left to do is to pick our poison.
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News
Storybook interaction testing allows you to script interactions and check expectations in the story itself. That allows you to run functional tests across UIs in the same environment you develop them: the browser.
Articles
In this article, Ahmad Shadeed explains what HSL is, how to use it, and shares some of the useful use-cases and examples that you can use right away in your current projects.
Is mobile first or desktop first still relevant today? An article that explores both with pros and cons for each.
In this article, we’ll discuss and learn about the use case of iterating over React `children` and the ways to do it. In particular, we will deep dive into one of the utility methods, `React.Children.toArray`, that React gives us, which helps to iterate over the children in a way which ensures performance and determinism.
All about those A's — your guide to understanding and making use of the ratios that determine your accessible contrast.
A short while ago, Chrome broke the web by disabling alert(), confirm() and prompt() dialogs from cross-origin iframes. The justification was that "the current UX is confusing, and has previously led to spoofs where sites pretend the message comes from Chrome or a different website"; removing the feature was deemed preferable to fixing the UX.
But legitimate uses were affected too...
For beginners
Get a great start into JavaScript by learning these one-liners in just a few minutes!
Hello from the server-side
What exactly is HTTP/3? Why was it needed so soon after HTTP/2 (which was only finalized in 2015)? How can or should you use it? And especially, how does this improve web performance? Let’s find out.
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